[cayugabirds-l] Late night listening to flight calls - Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Just heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo mixed in with various identifiable and unidentifiable night flight calls, Jeff -- Jeff Gerbracht Lead Application Developer Neotropical Birds, Breeding Bird Atlas, eBird Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2117 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Big flight showing on Buffalo NEXRAD
Looks like the skies are full. I usually look at Base Reflectivity and Base Radial Velocity. David Wheeler _http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BUF®ion=a5&lat=42.8959 6558&lon=-78.88545227&label=Buffalo%2c%20NY_ (http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BUF®ion=a5&lat=42.89596558&lon=-78.88545227&label=Buf falo,%20NY) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Whip-poor-will (and major night flight) - Tompkins Co.
Cayugabirders, I found a singing Whip-poor-will this evening on West Jersey Hill Rd., Danby (within sallying distance of the Ithaca town line). I arrived just before 8:30 and I heard the bird sing from 8:34-8:39. After I left, Jay McGowan tried for the bird and dipped. I heard him singing to the north of Jersey Hill Rd.; the exact location was here: 42.382304,-76.528135. This is the second Whip-poor-will that I've been lucky to hear in Tompkins County, and I think the circumstances of both observations were similar enough as to suggest a possible strategy for finding these locally rare migrants. Last year on 4 May, Bill Evans had a Whip-poor-will in Tompkins Co. singing in the early morning; that evening (light north winds), the bird sang briefly starting at 8:30 PM, foraged for a short while, and was never heard from again. Right around the end of civil twilight seems to be a good time for these birds to "activate" in the evening, so perhaps this can help with future searches. There are lots of good places south of Ithaca that I suspect are rarely checked in the evenings... On a very related note, most of the eastern US is currently experiencing a big nocturnal flight (http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/northeast_loop.php) - I heard only a few birds from 830-9:40 tonight, but it was early (I did hear Green Heron and Hermit Thrush overhead though). Good luck tomorrow! Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY t...@cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Barred Owl at Sapsucker Woods
On the Severinghaus trail at about 8:00 this evening as I was approaching the Sapsucker Woods Road entrance, I heard a Barred Owl calling, seemingly coming from the East trail. As I got close to the gate I stopped to listen again and heard the same call, only this time coming from deep in the woods on the North side. Either there are two individuals or my ears are playing tricks on me. I tried homing in on the one to the North, but it didn't call again. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Saturday?
I haven't heard any reports from Hawthorn Orchards yet this spring...I plan to go there tomorrow morning since we had a warm day and expect south winds over night. It would be great to meet folks there if there is interest. Tom "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre." Warren Buffett Thomas Hoebbel Photo~Video www.TH-Photo.com 607-539-6121 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] breeding-plumaged Long-Tailed Ducks!
Friday, 6:30pm We heard an odd, human/Loon like call, looked out from our deck, and are now watching 3 breeding-plumage Long-tailed Ducks! Two males, one female. The males are in full breeding plumage, and lifting their thin tails and shaking them, showing off to the female! Quite a surprise! Carol Schmitt -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant Bobolinks
Two male Bobolinks have arrived in the easternmost fields along Mt Pleasant Road as of around 4:00 this afternoon. I only glimpsed them briefly and they are not yet singing. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com http://www.agpix.com/mari -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] warblers around so. end Owasco
New warbler arrivals seemed to be Cerulean, Common Yellowthroat, Black- throated Green, Yellow and Nashville. Also of interest as pretty recent arrivals: Swamp Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Blue-headed Vireo. Waiting for more arrivals soon. Eben McLane -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Friday Mid-day Stewart & Cemetery
Hi all, With the weather as glorious as it has been today, I decided to do a little birding after class. By the Ithaca Cemetery, I found a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, a NASHVILLE WARBLER, a BLUE-HEADED VIREO, and a few RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS amongst many of the usual species. A BROAD-WINGED HAWK also circled overhead for a good 15 minutes before meandering off. I then ventured down to Stewart Park and the Swan Pen, where I found three YELLOW WARBLERS, two PALM WARBLERS (one very vivid), and two BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS. Looks like it will be an excellent weekend for migration! Cheers Nathan -- Nathan Robert Williams Undergraduate Student Earth and Atmospheric Sciences College of Engineering Cornell University c. 413.695.9896 e. nr...@cornell.edu home.comcast.net/~nrwhawk/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] calling Loon
Early this morning I was rowing quietly along the east side of the lake a couple of miles N of Myers. All of a sudden I heard Loon calls close behind me, I stopped rowing and a COMMON LOON paddled by about 20 ft away, and called repeatedly for about 2 minutes while I sat still nearby. Wonderful sound- I could hear echoes coming back from the far side of the lake. Does anybody know whether such vocalizations have any significance as to migratory versus potential breeding? - I don't remember hearing anything like this continuous outpouring on the lake before. I was very surprised that this bird paid no attention to me (unless the vocalization was a reaction to my approach?) In many encounters with Loons on lakes in NH, VT and Maine, my experience has always been that they dive well before you come as close as I was this morning. This bird just sat there, and finally I rowed away. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: Re:[cayugabirds-l] no intergrade flickers
Here is the link http://picasaweb.google.com/milkweedman/UnusualNorthernFlicker -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: Re:[cayugabirds-l] no intergrade flickers
The following link has three photos of a Northern Flicker with pinkish-red primaries and rectrices. The bird window crashed in Homer NY last autumn. Steve -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE:[cayugabirds-l] no intergrade flickers
I was also wondering if the museum specimen would have lost colors in so many years and so that is why no differences observed. Also, if food is the reason then there should be some variation in color, I sure all the birds were not collected at the same time of the year. I have no idea when the colour from the food gets into feathers after molt or before molt and how long they need to feed to get the colour to be visible on the feathers? But is interesting and I have not read literature about the same and I don't know if there are any evidences for the same. Meena -Original Message- From: bounce-5685517-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5685517-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin J. McGowan Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:18 PM To: k...@empacc.net Cc: cayugabirds-l Subject: RE:[cayugabirds-l] no intergrade flickers Interesting. I have been out of touch with what salvage has come in to the museum for the last 9 years. I wonder if a gap would be noticeable there. Best, Kevin Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D. Instructor Home Study Course in Bird Biology Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 k...@cornell.edu 607-254-2452 From: John and Sue Gregoire [k...@empacc.net] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:54 PM To: Kevin J. McGowan Cc: KHAMOLISTSERV; cayugabirds-l Subject: Re: no intergrade flickers Hi Kevin, I was hoping you would have an input as I didn't remember the details of what was in the collection from when we spoke of this several years ago. There have been a few studies refuting the diet hypothesis but I tend to lean that way myself for all the reasons you mentioned; perhaps a specific species of honeysuckle is at play as was hypothesized for Cedar Waxwings. The Intergrade call on flickers is mandated by the banding lab when any of the feather shafts show red. In this case it was a single shaft but over the years we've had many birds showing red in as many as six primary shafts. Body plumage is as you said with a few exceptions where we've noted graying in the face and some mottling in the mustache. None of that was very definitive and other characteristics that would be red-shafted are also not apparent. After handling a slew of them for several years running we hit a three year gap. This was the first red-shafted specimen we've had since. I had thought the phenomenon was over. If anything the invasive honeysuckle has burgeoned over that same period making one wonder a bit about the diet hypothesis. Thanks for adding to the discussion. Best, John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" On Fri, April 30, 2010 11:00, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > Cornell has an extensive series of several hundred intergrade or hybrid > flickers > from studies done in the Great Plains during the 1950s. Not one of them has > different-colored feathers on its body. The color they have varies from > yellow to > orange to red, but it is consistent across all the flight feathers in an > individual > bird. > > Nearly every flicker that has come into the Cornell bird collection in the > last 20 > years has at least some red on one of the feathers. The pattern of intensity > is > consistent, and usually each reddish feather has a slightly different > saturation > than the others. None of these woodpeckers have had any other Red-shafted > characters. Most of the true intergrades show intermediate changes in other > characters too, such as spots of red in the black male mustache or gray in > the face. > It is my conclusion that our local birds have nothing to do with Red-shafted > Flickers and have none in their recent ancestry. Honeysuckle berries seems > the most > obvious hypothesis. > > Kevin > > > > Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D. > Instructor > Home Study Course in Bird Biology > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 159 Sapsucker Woods Road > Ithaca, NY 14850 > k...@cornell.edu > 607-254-2452 > > From: bounce-5684159-3493...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-5684159-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John and Sue Gregoire > [k...@empacc.net] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:59 AM > To: KHAMOLISTSERV > Cc: cayugabirds-l > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] They're here > > This morning, we banded a Nashville Warbler, an ASY-M, and had the return of a > fourth year male Yellow Warbler that we banded as a SY a few years ago. > Another > interesting capture was of what we call a Flicker Integrade (FLIN). This > ASY-M had > bilateral red-shafts on the 8th primaries. Offically it must be called an > integrade > but such birds have been found in our area for several years now with varying > numbers of red shafted primaries. One school of thought is integrade (cross > of Red > and Yellow-shafted birds) while another is
[cayugabirds-l] help with call/song
Just now by 6 Mile Creek behind the Mental Health building a loud very explosive "CHIP!!" then, "chip, chip, chipchipchipchipchip" decreasing in volume and getting a bit faster, still the same approx. pitch. Repeated every 20 seconds or so. Nothing like Field Sparrow. Not any Warbler I know. Not the KEER of Flicker. I was caught by the explosiveness of the first CHIP. Ideas anyone? Asher -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE:[cayugabirds-l] no intergrade flickers
Interesting. I have been out of touch with what salvage has come in to the museum for the last 9 years. I wonder if a gap would be noticeable there. Best, Kevin Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D. Instructor Home Study Course in Bird Biology Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 k...@cornell.edu 607-254-2452 From: John and Sue Gregoire [k...@empacc.net] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:54 PM To: Kevin J. McGowan Cc: KHAMOLISTSERV; cayugabirds-l Subject: Re: no intergrade flickers Hi Kevin, I was hoping you would have an input as I didn't remember the details of what was in the collection from when we spoke of this several years ago. There have been a few studies refuting the diet hypothesis but I tend to lean that way myself for all the reasons you mentioned; perhaps a specific species of honeysuckle is at play as was hypothesized for Cedar Waxwings. The Intergrade call on flickers is mandated by the banding lab when any of the feather shafts show red. In this case it was a single shaft but over the years we've had many birds showing red in as many as six primary shafts. Body plumage is as you said with a few exceptions where we've noted graying in the face and some mottling in the mustache. None of that was very definitive and other characteristics that would be red-shafted are also not apparent. After handling a slew of them for several years running we hit a three year gap. This was the first red-shafted specimen we've had since. I had thought the phenomenon was over. If anything the invasive honeysuckle has burgeoned over that same period making one wonder a bit about the diet hypothesis. Thanks for adding to the discussion. Best, John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" On Fri, April 30, 2010 11:00, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > Cornell has an extensive series of several hundred intergrade or hybrid > flickers > from studies done in the Great Plains during the 1950s. Not one of them has > different-colored feathers on its body. The color they have varies from > yellow to > orange to red, but it is consistent across all the flight feathers in an > individual > bird. > > Nearly every flicker that has come into the Cornell bird collection in the > last 20 > years has at least some red on one of the feathers. The pattern of intensity > is > consistent, and usually each reddish feather has a slightly different > saturation > than the others. None of these woodpeckers have had any other Red-shafted > characters. Most of the true intergrades show intermediate changes in other > characters too, such as spots of red in the black male mustache or gray in > the face. > It is my conclusion that our local birds have nothing to do with Red-shafted > Flickers and have none in their recent ancestry. Honeysuckle berries seems > the most > obvious hypothesis. > > Kevin > > > > Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D. > Instructor > Home Study Course in Bird Biology > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 159 Sapsucker Woods Road > Ithaca, NY 14850 > k...@cornell.edu > 607-254-2452 > > From: bounce-5684159-3493...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-5684159-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John and Sue Gregoire > [k...@empacc.net] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:59 AM > To: KHAMOLISTSERV > Cc: cayugabirds-l > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] They're here > > This morning, we banded a Nashville Warbler, an ASY-M, and had the return of a > fourth year male Yellow Warbler that we banded as a SY a few years ago. > Another > interesting capture was of what we call a Flicker Integrade (FLIN). This > ASY-M had > bilateral red-shafts on the 8th primaries. Offically it must be called an > integrade > but such birds have been found in our area for several years now with varying > numbers of red shafted primaries. One school of thought is integrade (cross > of Red > and Yellow-shafted birds) while another is a dietetic influence. To my > knowledge the > latter is unproven and genetic studies haven't been completed on the cross > possibility although we submitted feathers and swabs to UCLA several years > ago as > part of the H5N1 study. > J > -- > John and Sue Gregoire > Field Ornithologists > Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory > 5373 Fitzgerald Road > Burdett,NY 14818-9626 > Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ > "Conserve and Create Habitat" > > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebir
Re: [cayugabirds-l] More Friday birding
For those keeping track of first arrivals, there was a single COMMON YELLOWTHROAT singing along this same Larch Meadow trail on Saturday, April 24. Nothing else new yet today KEN On 4/30/10 11:16 AM, "Jay McGowan" wrote: After the farmers market I headed farther south. I walked around the Larch Meadows trail at the base of Sandbank Road. It's a cool area, with some big trees and flooded areas reminiscent of the woods at the south end of the lake as well as an overgrown marsh and adjacent steep wooded hillsides. Highlights were LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, 10+ SWAMP SPARROWS, and family of CAROLINA WRENS including four fledglings with short tails and bills but capable of respectable flight. The rest of Sanbank had nothing of note, but a NASHVILLE WARBLER was singing on Jersey Hill Road and a male BOBOLINK was displaying on West King Road. Good birding, Jay McGowan ** Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca NY 14850 Phone: 607-254-2412 cell: 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edu www.birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] goslings at CLO
The goslings are back on the wilson trail at the N. feeders. . . still 5 of them! On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > Good afternoon all, > There are two Canada Geese with at least 5 fuzzy young under the north > feeder (12:03 pm). Cute! > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > Lab Manager > Evolutionary Biology Program > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. > Ithaca, New York 14850 > Office: (607) 254 2141 > Lab:(607) 254 2142 > Fax:(607) 254 2486 > *l...@cornell.edu* > > > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Herons at SSW
Anne Marie, Yes it is definitely a second pair. Charles documented lots of cool interactions on that tree the day before with three adults,one being sent away and then sticks were seen there the next morning and voila... and the other pair is still firmly entrenched on their nest. Isn't this so exciting. Linda On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Anne Marie Johnson < annemariejohn...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > A pair of Great Blue Herons are well on their way to building a second nest > in a snag near the first nest at Sapsucker Woods. They were working on it > this morning. What I can't be sure of is if this is a second pair or the > first pair starting over. I haven't seen activity at the first nest in a few > days, but then I don't look all that often, and when a heron is tucked down > in the nest, it's virtually invisible. Either way, it looks like a rookery > is beginning! > > Anne Marie > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Herons at SSW
A pair of Great Blue Herons are well on their way to building a second nest in a snag near the first nest at Sapsucker Woods. They were working on it this morning. What I can't be sure of is if this is a second pair or the first pair starting over. I haven't seen activity at the first nest in a few days, but then I don't look all that often, and when a heron is tucked down in the nest, it's virtually invisible. Either way, it looks like a rookery is beginning! Anne Marie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods Osprey and Myers
I walked the Wilson Trail between 7:30 and 8:15 and can add an OSPREY to the list of birds in the refuge this morning. The Osprey was perched atop a thin snag at the back of the pond, viewable from the Sherwood Platform. When I went through, the Rusty Blackbirds were foraging in the wet areas just past the Podell Boardwalk from the Lab building. At Myers at around 8:30, swallows were limited to Tree and Barn, and there was nothing on the point. A Warbling Vireo was singing from Salt Point, and a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was foraging in the tree tops at the tip of Salt Point. The water was empty but incredibly tranquil. Anne Marie Johnson -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Lindsay-Parsons, Fri 4/30
My wife Miyoko Chu took the morning off and gave me the wonderful surprise gift of her birding company on this fine morning. We spent two hours at the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve, first scanning the swamp by the fire station and then walking the trails. It was Miyoko's first visit here in our nine years of life in Ithaca. Highlights include one NASHVILLE WARBLER (hedgerow by fire station), 3 BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS (one on territory near first trail fork, one on territory near Celia's Cup), 4+ YELLOW WARBLERS, one GREEN HERON (fire station swamp), 5+ BROWN THRASHERS, a BLUE-HEADED VIREO in the woods above Celia's Cup, a calling COMMON RAVEN, and many FIELD SPARROWS everywhere. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk over East Hill
I was in the lot behind the Rite Aid across from East Hill Plaza checking out a singing/foraging Yellow Warbler when I .I saw a Broad-winged Hawk flying north high over the cemetery (ca. 0900 h). Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] More Friday birding
After the farmers market I headed farther south. I walked around the Larch Meadows trail at the base of Sandbank Road. It's a cool area, with some big trees and flooded areas reminiscent of the woods at the south end of the lake as well as an overgrown marsh and adjacent steep wooded hillsides. Highlights were LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, 10+ SWAMP SPARROWS, and family of CAROLINA WRENS including four fledglings with short tails and bills but capable of respectable flight. The rest of Sanbank had nothing of note, but a NASHVILLE WARBLER was singing on Jersey Hill Road and a male BOBOLINK was displaying on West King Road. Good birding, Jay McGowan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Spring Arrival Date List
Hi All, I've finally put together a new list of average spring arrivals dates for the Cayuga Lake Basin, based on spring arrivals from 2000-2009. The list can be found directly at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/cayugabirdclub/aughtsarrivals.htm or via the Cayuga Bird Club First Records and Arrivals page: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/cayugabirdclub/firstrecords.htm I'll also add that a great way to get a fuller understanding of the status and distribution of migrants and non-migrants alike in the Basin is to go to eBird.org and do the following: Select "View and Explore Data" Then select "bar charts" Select "New York," then the "Counties in New York" button, then Continue And then select the Basin counties of Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins, and Wayne. This will give a bar chart for all species seen in these counties, with all data entered between 1900 and 2010. To focus on more recent data, click "Change Date" and change the start year from 1900 to 2000. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the many Basin eBirders, these bar charts are really excellent. They really show much more about spring migration than just a list of arrival dates. Be sure to add your sightings from eBird to make the bar charts even better! Good birding, Matt Medler Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] no intergrade flickers
Cornell has an extensive series of several hundred intergrade or hybrid flickers from studies done in the Great Plains during the 1950s. Not one of them has different-colored feathers on its body. The color they have varies from yellow to orange to red, but it is consistent across all the flight feathers in an individual bird. Nearly every flicker that has come into the Cornell bird collection in the last 20 years has at least some red on one of the feathers. The pattern of intensity is consistent, and usually each reddish feather has a slightly different saturation than the others. None of these woodpeckers have had any other Red-shafted characters. Most of the true intergrades show intermediate changes in other characters too, such as spots of red in the black male mustache or gray in the face. It is my conclusion that our local birds have nothing to do with Red-shafted Flickers and have none in their recent ancestry. Honeysuckle berries seems the most obvious hypothesis. Kevin Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D. Instructor Home Study Course in Bird Biology Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 k...@cornell.edu 607-254-2452 From: bounce-5684159-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-5684159-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John and Sue Gregoire [k...@empacc.net] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:59 AM To: KHAMOLISTSERV Cc: cayugabirds-l Subject: [cayugabirds-l] They're here This morning, we banded a Nashville Warbler, an ASY-M, and had the return of a fourth year male Yellow Warbler that we banded as a SY a few years ago. Another interesting capture was of what we call a Flicker Integrade (FLIN). This ASY-M had bilateral red-shafts on the 8th primaries. Offically it must be called an integrade but such birds have been found in our area for several years now with varying numbers of red shafted primaries. One school of thought is integrade (cross of Red and Yellow-shafted birds) while another is a dietetic influence. To my knowledge the latter is unproven and genetic studies haven't been completed on the cross possibility although we submitted feathers and swabs to UCLA several years ago as part of the H5N1 study. J -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] the oil spill in the Gulf
Birders, Many of our winged friends are being shellacked by the oil spill. in the Gulf. If you were ever going to make comments to lawmakers, this is the time. Reuters' lIst of wildlife refuges in the path of the oil spill. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63T26L20100430 Regi -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Blackburnian Warbler - Sapsucker Woods
Hi all, I was just outside by the north end of the Lab of O and heard a Blackburnian Warbler singing briefly before it took flight. Earlier this morning, I had many of the same birds reported by Matt. The only thing to add from earlier was a single Field Sparrow near the feeders at the main entrance. The migrants are finally here! Good birding, Shawn -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Cerulean Warbler - Stewart Park
Cayugabirders, While I was looking at loons from Stewart Park this morning, I heard and then briefly saw a male Cerulean Warbler when it flew out of the first large willow tree just east of the Swan Pen. The bird gained height but I lost it as it headed toward the southeast corner of the lake along the shoreline. I didn't have a great idea on whether this is a local arrival that could end up in Renwick/ Jetty Woods or a more ambitious migrant. There were lots of migrant passerines redirecting this morning over the park, with Purple Martin, Eastern Bluebird, ~26 Yellow-rumped Warblers, ~13 Yellow Warblers, a few Savannah Sparrows, and an Eastern Meadowlark highlighting as obvious migrants. A few other stops around Ithaca turned up quite a few "new" Chipping Sparrows. Let the floodgates open tonight (light south winds)! Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY t...@cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Kingbird
Returning from Sapsucker Woods this AM, where I had to go see our burgeoning heron rookery, was an Eastern Kingbird on the telephone wires along Hanshaw rd Have a great birdy day. Linda Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] They're here
This morning, we banded a Nashville Warbler, an ASY-M, and had the return of a fourth year male Yellow Warbler that we banded as a SY a few years ago. Another interesting capture was of what we call a Flicker Integrade (FLIN). This ASY-M had bilateral red-shafts on the 8th primaries. Offically it must be called an integrade but such birds have been found in our area for several years now with varying numbers of red shafted primaries. One school of thought is integrade (cross of Red and Yellow-shafted birds) while another is a dietetic influence. To my knowledge the latter is unproven and genetic studies haven't been completed on the cross possibility although we submitted feathers and swabs to UCLA several years ago as part of the H5N1 study. J -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Warblers this morning
On stepping outside this morning, I was greeted by a singing Blackburnian Warbler, mixed in with some Yellow-rumps and Blue-headed Vireos. And a short while later, I heard my first Ovenbird of the year. Things certainly started coming back last night. Jeff -- Jeff Gerbracht Lead Application Developer Neotropical Birds, Breeding Bird Atlas, eBird Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2117 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Friday morning at Sapsucker Woods
I took a walk around the pond at Sapsucker Woods this morning (30 April 2010). While it is a lovely morning, there wasn't quite as much migrant activity as I might have hoped for. I counted about 20 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, and then also heard single BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH singing. The other highlights for me were seeing the start of the second heron nest, and a noisy group of 5+ RUSTY BLACKBIRDS on the boardwalk nearest the feeder garden. Good birding, Matt Medler Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Friday morning so far
Two Nahville Warblers at Dryden Lake. Yellow Warblers and Warbling Vireos at George Road. Yellow Warblers, Warbling Videos, Green Heron, and two Northern Waterthrushes at Stewart Park. Caspian Tern, Yellow Warbler, Warbling Vireo and White-crowned Sparrow at Farmers Market. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Herons at SSW
On Wed at noon, I saw 5 GREAT BLUE HERONS, none of which I believe were of the nesting pair, as 3 In adult plumage were sitting peacefully on upper branches and 1 in juvenile (or missed molt) plumage was lower on same tree: this is another dead snag tree about 100' from the current nest tree, and yet another adult was on the berm below the tree. While it is difficult to see the incubating individual on the snag tree, we've seen it rise up, rearrange things, and disappear once sat down again, so I think she/he was probably on that nest. I think none of the new 5 were the current M since he actively defended the nest site earlier this Spring from some other 'intruders'; it seems unlikely he would be less defensive with eggs on the nest but I'm not a heron expert. Thu morn, I saw one of the (new) adults present a nice big stick to another on that same (new) tree. They positioned it along the branch (precariously), mutually preened, then turned to face into the stiff wind we had then. I walked on, but on my return, saw 1 bird, and no stick. But at noon, I could see 2 sticks hooked together on that branch. Today 745am, I am stunned! There are probably 30 sticks interwoven. Both birds were actively working together to weave another in as I watched. One flew up with it, presented it, the other started pushing it into the mesh while the bringer held it, just like those handy little desk vises with the two adjustable alligator clips, was my (hobbyist-inspired) thought. BTW, this nest is easily visible for picture-taking from north Wilson trail. Then I looked around and tallied simultaneously at least 5 herons on 5 different trees on the pond. This counts the weaving pair on 1 tree, the incubator on the big snag, then 3 more visible sitting in other tall trees. All had adult plumage; I haven't seen the juvenile today. So, if you want to see the birth of a rookery, come on up to Sapsucker Woods! _ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst -- 607-254-1108 -- chris.pel...@cornell.edu Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] BTgreen; Nashville
New birds for the year in the yard this morning (Friday) were Black-throated Green Warbler and Nashville Warbler, both singing. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Nashville
I woke up this morning thinking "Last day of April. There must be a Nashville Warbler around here somewhere!" And of course there was, right in the blooming apple trees. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
